USDA, EPA, and the U.S. FDA announced the signing of a joint agency formal agreement under the Winning on Reducing Food Waste initiative.
By recognizing there was food to be rescued within the delivery chain, the two organizations developed a smart solution to fight both food waste and hunger.
Just how much produce is the agricultural industry leaving in the fields post harvest? The World Wildlife Fund dove into food loss numbers in their recent report, “No Food Left Behind: Underutilized Produce Ripe for Alternative Markets.” The report examines four crops during the 2017-2018 growing season at a set of farms in Florida, New […]
When the Lone Star FFA advisor saw food overflowing from a grocery dumpster over Christmas, she knew her chapter needed to do something.
Food donation is now as simple as a click thanks to a new innovative technology platform from Feeding America. MealConnect helps to save food that previously might have gone to waste—such as a small load of meat from a local butcher or a box of tomatoes from a farmers market. The platform then directs that […]
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten … which means that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year in food waste. Food waste was a hot topic at the Bayer AgVocacy Forum this week in San Antonio, Texas. Panelists Jack […]
The grocery industry announced a nationwide effort to fix date labels on food packaging, following House Agriculture Committee work on food waste solutions.